Everybody wears retro Jordans these days.

Everybody. Every other young bruh is guaranteed to be wearing some Jordans with a dirty fro. Even whites, Asians, Indians, Arabs and Hispanics wear J's now. It's a fukking footwear uniform nowadays. If you go to the average mall or college campus, literally everyone is wearing J's.
It wasn't always like this. In the 90's, Jordans were like Lebrons. People only wore the Jordans that came out that year back in the 90's. Anybody could walk in the mall and buy them like general release Lebrons. There were only a handful of retro J's back in the 90's like the Black/Cement 3's back in 94' and the 4's back in 99' for the ten anniversary. Retro J's made a big come back in the early 2000's, but it was mostly only black people and real sneakerheads wearing them back then.

For a long time, retro J's actually sat on thew shelf. The fire red 3's and Aqua 8's actually sat on shelves back in 2007. In the mid 2000's, hypebeasts had their SB Dunks and Bapes and black people started wearing Vans and shyt out of the blue. It wasn't until Jordan Brand started retroing the 11's every Christmas season did the universal hype for retro J's begin. Now every Jordan is a quickstrike release that sells out no matter if they are ugly or not. The materials of the newer retro J's are crap too.

The 3's midsoles crack after a few wears and need to be repainted with that nasty Angelus goop only to recrack three wears again later.
There is absolutely no identity in wearing retro J's anymore.
I'm 32 and I remember d-boys in my hood wearing O.G. 4's, 5's and 6's back in the day.

My favorite will always be the Black/Cement 3. But wearing J's at this day in age makes me feel unoriginal. The shoe game is pretty much dead nowadays. Foams are dead too because they came out in too many different colors. Nike ID has some dope options for custom forces though.

I'd rather go to the thrift store and find some vintage heat that no one has than line up (and risk a decent chance of getting stabbed, shot) to get the same Jordans everyone is going to be wearing from Bel Air to Beirut.